$2M bond placed on Shuey for Duval charges

BRYAN NOONANStaff Writer

Published Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Accused serial rapist David Alan Shuey remained silent in court Tuesday while St. Johns County Judge Charles Tinlin allowed a $2 million bond to be placed on him for armed rape and armed burglary charges from Duval County.

The crime occurred Sept. 19, 2000, at 9765 Southbrook Drive, which is near Baymeadows Road and Interstate 95 in Jacksonville, according to Sgt. Hal Atkinson of the sex crimes unit at the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

"He knocked on her door and said he was an apartment maintenance man there to work on her air conditioner," Atkinson said. "Once inside, he committed an armed sexual battery."

The armed burglary charge came from Shuey entering the home with the intent to commit a crime, Atkinson said.

He added that this is the only case JSO is looking at to connect Shuey to Duval County.

Shuey, 30, now faces a total of six charges of rape or attempted rape from police agencies in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Florida. He has been held without bond in St. Johns County jail since his capture Aug. 3 after allegedly attempting to rape a sunbather at Guana River State Park.

Investigators from the three states said he used a similar tactic when attacking the other women, posing as a maintenance worker.

After analyzing evidence in the days after Shuey's arrest, St. Johns County Sheriff's Office detectives charged Shuey with the rape of a Ponte Vedra Beach woman last November.